AUSTWELL-TIVOLI EL
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Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 61 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 61 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 50% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 59% typical for Texas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Texas's top nor bottom 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About AUSTWELL-TIVOLI EL
Located at 207 REDFISH ST, in TIVOLI, Texas, AUSTWELL-TIVOLI EL is a minimally staffed elementary school that hosts 67 students (grades pre-K through 5), operated by AUSTWELL-TIVOLI ISD. Enrollment runs roughly 87% below the state mean of about 519.
Within AUSTWELL-TIVOLI ISD, which oversees 2 schools and 141 students, AUSTWELL-TIVOLI EL is one campus in the system.
For racial and ethnic makeup, AUSTWELL-TIVOLI EL shows that 54% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest breaks down as 45% White. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.
On the resource side, AUSTWELL-TIVOLI EL reports 6 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting AUSTWELL-TIVOLI EL tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 34% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Refugio County runs at roughly 57%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), AUSTWELL-TIVOLI EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 58.9%, the actual is 49.6%, a residual of -9.3 points.
In the area at large, the surrounding county (Refugio County) reports that median household income runs about $60,181, roughly 14% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 14%. Across Refugio County's 7 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,197 students), AUSTWELL-TIVOLI EL is one campus in the mix.
The closest other public school is AUSTWELL-TIVOLI H S, roughly 0.0 miles away. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts AUSTWELL-TIVOLI EL at 3rd of 8; the average score across the group is 38.6%.
AUSTWELL-TIVOLI EL operates from a countryside location.
Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 16%: 80 students in 2018 compared to 67 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment shrank from 79% to 54% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 9.0:1 in 2018 to 11.1:1 today.
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